Currently tracking 199 active AI roles, down 24% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $230k–$555k (avg $372k).
OpenAI currently has 235 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles are in the application stage, accounting for 32% of the total, followed closely by the agents stage at 29%. The dominant function for hiring is Engineering, with 168 positions. Frequent tech tags include model_serving, evals, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a focus on deploying and managing AI models. In the last 30 days, OpenAI posted 50 new AI roles, representing a 14% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
OpenAI currently has 254 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Deployment Engineer (4), Partner AI Deployment Engineer - AWS (4), AI Deployment Engineer - Startups (3), AI Deployment Engineer- Codex (3), AI Deployment Engineer, Startups (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
OpenAI's active AI hiring is concentrated in: application (33%), agents (28%), serving infrastructure (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
OpenAI is hiring AI talent in: United States (203 roles), United Kingdom (14 roles), Japan (6 roles), Germany (5 roles).
Job postings at OpenAI most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, evals, llm observability, inference infra.
In the past 30 days, OpenAI has posted 56 new AI-related roles.
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| Data Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Data Engineer to build and manage data pipelines for user event data integration into their data warehouse. This role will develop canonical datasets for key product metrics, support safety systems, and collaborate with research teams to aid in new model training. The position requires expertise in data engineering technologies and distributed processing frameworks. | Data | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Acquisition Software Engineer focused on data acquisition for model training, involving web crawling, data ingestion, and large-scale distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Supply Chain Transformation Architect This role focuses on transforming supply chain operations for robotics, consumer hardware, and data center infrastructure by redesigning processes, enabling them with systems architecture and data foundation, and integrating AI-driven automation. The goal is to move from manual operations to intelligent, data-driven execution, including building a Supply Chain Control Tower and embedding AI insights into workflows. |
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| Strategic Finance, International This role is for a Strategic Finance professional to partner with leadership on the financial performance of OpenAI's international business. Responsibilities include financial visibility, performance management, supporting expansion planning, developing executive reporting, coordinating planning processes, establishing operating frameworks, driving business reviews, and supporting public-company-readiness. The role also involves helping design and implement agentic workflows and AI-enabled operating processes. Requires 10+ years of experience in finance/consulting, with 4+ years in strategic finance at a high-growth tech company. Strong analytical, modeling, and communication skills are essential, along with curiosity about AI's impact on end markets and experience with AI deployment. | — | 1 |
| Business Operations Partner, Transportation Program This role is a Business Operations Partner for the Transportation Program within OpenAI's Real Estate & Workplace organization. The primary focus is on cross-functional coordination, stakeholder support, communication, and operational follow-through to improve the employee transportation experience. The role involves building relationships, understanding needs, representing the team, gathering feedback, tracking items, supporting planning, drafting communications, and improving internal processes. It requires experience in business operations, workplace operations, or program coordination, strong organizational and communication skills, and the ability to navigate ambiguity. | — | 0 |
| Program Manager, Procurement Center of Excellence This role is for a Program Manager within OpenAI's Procurement organization, focusing on a Center of Excellence (COE) team. The primary responsibility is to design and scale processes, systems, governance, and operating models for Procurement. The role involves leading cross-functional initiatives, translating business needs into scalable requirements, driving planning and execution, and supporting continuous improvement efforts, including the use of AI and automation to enhance procurement operations. It is a product-focused role within the general domain, with no direct AI/ML craft involved. | — | 0 |
| Administrative Business Partner Administrative Business Partner role supporting executives and leaders within the Executive Operations team at OpenAI. Responsibilities include complex calendar management, expense processing, travel arrangements, and event planning. Requires strong organizational and communication skills, with 4-7 years of administrative experience in a fast-paced environment. | — | 0 |
| Android Engineer, Growth Android Engineer focused on building and improving consumer-facing mobile experiences for ChatGPT's paid offerings, driving activation, conversion, and retention through experimentation and collaboration with product, design, and data teams. | — | 0 |
| Advanced Packaging Reliability Engineer This role focuses on the reliability engineering of advanced packages for high-performance AI and computing systems. The engineer will use thermal and mechanical modeling to optimize package design, material selection, and assembly processes, develop reliability test plans, identify failure mechanisms, and perform root-cause analysis. The goal is to ensure the robustness and lifetime of packages used in AI workloads. | — | 0 |
| Lead Industrial Designer, Robotics Lead Industrial Designer for OpenAI's Robotics team, focusing on defining the visual identity, form language, and physical expression of robotic products. This role involves concept development, industrial design, surface development, and creating production-intent digital assets for integration into engineering workflows, aiming to shape the physical experience of future robotic systems. | — | 0 |
| Business Development Lead - Cyber Develop and execute OpenAI's global cybersecurity partnership strategy, leading high-impact product, platform, and research partnerships across the cybersecurity ecosystem. This role requires shaping partnership strategy, enabling the ecosystem, and informing product, security, safety, policy, legal, and commercial considerations. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Application Data Architect, GTM Systems This role focuses on defining and improving the data architecture for go-to-market systems and enterprise CRM environments. It involves designing scalable data models, establishing system-of-record definitions, improving integrations, and leading data quality and governance initiatives across the customer lifecycle. The role requires expertise in enterprise data architecture, data management, and CRM systems, with a focus on translating business requirements into technical solutions. | — | 0 |
| System Power Engineer, Consumer Devices Seeking a System Power Engineer to characterize, measure, and optimize power consumption on embedded hardware products for AI-powered consumer devices. This role involves building power test automation, measuring subsystem power usage, and driving improvements in battery life, thermal behavior, charging performance, and system reliability. The engineer will collaborate with Electrical Engineering and system software teams to establish methodologies and metrics for power efficiency. | — | 0 |
| System Performance Engineer, Consumer Devices This role focuses on optimizing the performance of AI-powered consumer devices, specifically profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing performance across embedded hardware, operating systems, and applications. The engineer will define product KPIs, build performance tooling, and drive optimizations from lab to launch. | — | 0 |
| Lead, Incidents & Escalations, User Operations Lead Incidents & Escalations for User Operations at OpenAI, a player-coach role focused on building and running the incident response function. This involves active participation in incidents, coordinating cross-functional teams, managing communications, and driving post-incident analysis and process improvements to enhance customer experience and reduce repeat issues. The role requires strong leadership, calm under pressure, and the ability to balance day-to-day operations with long-term system building. | — | 0 |
| Salesforce Ads Systems Engineer This role focuses on building and engineering Salesforce solutions for OpenAI's emerging ads business. The primary responsibility is to create scalable and auditable systems for advertiser lifecycle management, campaign readiness, approvals, and revenue operations, integrating Salesforce with various ads and billing platforms. It's an execution-heavy builder role within the Enterprise Platform team. | — | 0 |
| Biosafety Red Teaming Specialist This role focuses on red teaming for biosafety and managing bio bounty programs, identifying and mitigating biological and CBRN risks associated with AI systems. It requires deep subject-matter expertise in biological risks and an adversarial mindset to assess potential misuse of AI capabilities. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer, Soft Goods Design Mechanical Engineer to lead the engineering, characterization, and productionization of flexible and compliant components in robotic platforms. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate material concepts into engineered subsystems that meet functional, durability, and manufacturing requirements. Focus on understanding soft material behavior in dynamic mechanical systems and designing assemblies that perform consistently at scale. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Private Computing Software Engineer to design, build, and scale novel privacy features and infrastructure for OpenAI's products (ChatGPT, API, consumer devices), focusing on confidential computing, trusted execution environments, and end-to-end encryption to ensure user data privacy. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Engineer, Sensing Mechanical Engineer focused on designing and prototyping tactile, proprioceptive, and force sensor solutions for the Robotics team at OpenAI, integrating hardware and software for general-purpose robotics and AGI-level intelligence. | — | 0 |
| Mechanical Design Engineer Seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to lead the design, integration, and sustaining engineering of mechanical subsystems in robotic platforms, working closely with AI capabilities and physical systems to improve lives. This role involves hands-on work with hardware from prototype through early production, focusing on mechanical system design fundamentals. | — | 0 |
| Head of Communications, Business This role is for a Head of Communications, Business at OpenAI, focusing on shaping and driving the company's B2B communication strategy. The individual will lead press narratives, media engagement, and build credibility with business and technical stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor to senior leadership. The role requires extensive experience in enterprise/B2B communications within high-growth tech environments and the ability to build and scale communication functions. | — | 0 |
| Software Engineer, Web Layer Software Engineer, Web Layer at OpenAI, focusing on the web-based systems and user experiences for the Codex desktop client application. This role involves designing and implementing infrastructure and features end-to-end, working on both backend C++ and Chromium, with some TypeScript and Python for infrastructure. The goal is to create a hybrid agentic/interactive web browser. | — | 0 |
| Account Director, Government Scale Account Director for OpenAI's Government team, focusing on scaled sales motions for federal, state, and local government customers. This full-cycle sales role involves managing a portfolio of smaller/mid-sized agencies, creating opportunities through outbound outreach, coordinating with partners, and closing deals, while also identifying larger strategic opportunities for handover. The role requires strong sales skills, operational discipline, and the ability to guide government organizations in adopting AI products responsibly. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Procurement Operations - Hardware This role is for a Senior Manager of Procurement Operations focused on Hardware at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to own and manage the operational flow of goods and hardware purchasing, from request intake to purchase orders, supplier coordination, and invoice support. The role involves redesigning workflows, improving systems, and implementing automation and AI-enabled processes to scale operations. It requires a strong understanding of procurement, supply chain, fiscal controls, and accounting practices, with experience in complex physical-goods environments. The role is hands-on, requiring both operational execution and process redesign. | — | 0 |
| Business Affairs Manager This role supports OpenAI's Hardware team by managing Business Affairs workstreams for marketing projects, including confidential product launches. The manager will oversee rights, clearances, contracts, vendor requirements, and risk decisions, ensuring compliance and scalability. The role involves shaping BA processes, partnering with various internal teams and external partners, and managing day-to-day execution of workflows. Experience in advertising/marketing/production business affairs, particularly with hardware or confidential pre-launch work, is required. | — | 0 |
| Integrated Marketing Manager OpenAI is seeking an Integrated Marketing Manager to lead multi-channel marketing campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, and conversion across key audiences. This role requires a creative thinker and skilled collaborator to develop and execute marketing strategies for consumer, enterprise, and developer audiences, working cross-functionally to bring plans to life and elevate scaled marketing efforts. | — | 0 |
| Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware This role focuses on the end-to-end security foundation for OpenAI's first-party AI hardware systems, covering hardware security, embedded security, system security, and deployment at data center scale. Responsibilities include defining and delivering system-level device trust, from boot integrity to decommissioning, and translating threat models into requirements and validation evidence. The role requires extensive experience in hardware and embedded security, with a strong understanding of applied cryptography and systems programming. | — | 0 |
| Startup Content Marketing Lead This role focuses on content marketing for startups using OpenAI's AI products, aiming to drive awareness, engagement, and adoption. It involves defining co-marketing strategies, creating social-first content, and translating field successes into durable content franchises. The goal is to help startups build successfully with OpenAI and demonstrate the measurable GTM impact of AI adoption. | — | 0 |
| Compute & Infrastructure Accounting Manager This role manages the accounting and financial reporting for OpenAI's compute and infrastructure lease-related activities, including data centers, servers, and equipment. It involves evaluating complex lease accounting matters, operationalizing new programs, and designing processes and systems to support accurate and scalable accounting operations. The position requires strong US GAAP knowledge, particularly in lease accounting and consolidation, and the ability to work cross-functionally with various teams. | — | 0 |
| Associate General Counsel, Hardware IP OpenAI is seeking an Associate General Counsel to lead global hardware IP portfolio initiatives, including patent, trademark, and other intellectual property matters. This role involves setting strategic direction, creating scalable processes, developing internal policies, engaging externally on policy issues, advising on IP deals, and building internal AI expertise for the legal team. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of hardware IP experience, a JD, and a strong sense of ownership. | — | 0 |
| Enterprise Relationship Manager, Customer Marketing This role focuses on managing relationships with enterprise customers to showcase their successful use of OpenAI's products, turning these outcomes into proof points for marketing and sales efforts. It involves identifying advocates, building trust with senior stakeholders, and coordinating across various internal teams and external customers for co-marketing and advocacy programs. | — | 0 |
| Inventory and Cost Accounting Lead The Inventory and Cost Accounting Lead will build and scale manufacturing accounting and product costing capabilities for consumer hardware and robotics businesses. This role involves establishing costing methodologies, inventory valuation, manufacturing close procedures, and reporting infrastructure, partnering closely with Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations. Key responsibilities include leading product costing, inventory accounting, ERP implementation (Oracle Fusion), financial close, reporting, controls, and cross-functional leadership to support rapid growth and product launches. | — | 0 |
| Manufacturing Test Engineer OpenAI is seeking a Manufacturing Test Engineer to own and drive the manufacturing test strategy, development, and execution for complex AI hardware systems. This role involves defining and implementing test coverage across the product lifecycle, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring manufacturing test readiness from early development through volume production. The engineer will analyze test data, debug failures, improve yield, and drive continuous improvement of test processes for AI hardware. | — | 0 |
| Order Management & Billing Lead, Cloud Marketplaces & Partnerships - AWS This role focuses on managing and scaling order management and billing operations, particularly for cloud marketplaces and partner channels like AWS. It involves end-to-end billing lifecycle management, process design, automation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure accurate and timely invoicing. The role aims to embed AI and automation into workflows to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Hardware Partnerships This role focuses on strategic hardware partnerships, managing relationships with silicon, systems, and manufacturing partners to support OpenAI's product roadmap. It involves defining joint strategies, structuring and negotiating complex agreements, and managing operational rhythms and impact measurement. The role requires deep experience in hardware ecosystems, supply chain, and commercial leadership, with a strong ability to influence cross-functional teams and external partners. | — | 0 |
| Global Vendor Manager, Ads This role is for a Global Vendor Manager on the Ads team at OpenAI. The primary responsibility is to build and scale the vendor operating model for the Ads business globally, focusing on operational excellence, performance management, governance, and forecasting. The role involves partnering with various internal teams and external vendors to drive customer acquisition, revenue growth, and customer experiences. While the role mentions leveraging AI and automation, its core function is in sales operations and vendor management, not in building or deploying AI models. | — | 0 |
| Counsel, Commercial Experienced commercial attorney to support OpenAI's growing business, focusing on negotiating agreements, providing legal advice on commercial, product, regulatory, and privacy issues, and developing scalable legal frameworks for responsible growth. The role involves advising on AI and technology-related regulatory and compliance matters. | — | 0 |
| GTM Strategy & Operations, Enterprise This role is in GTM Strategy & Operations for Enterprise at OpenAI, focusing on driving revenue growth, improving business execution, and operationalizing go-to-market initiatives. It involves strategic planning, analyzing business performance, supporting forecasting, developing growth strategies for new products, and building scalable processes. The role requires strong analytical and operational skills, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to translate data into actionable insights for leadership. | — | 0 |
| Host Systems Software Engineer OpenAI is seeking an experienced systems software engineer to design and build the host software stack for their custom next-generation AI systems. This role involves working closely with hardware on performance-critical software, including Linux kernel drivers, high-throughput I/O paths, and system-scale networking. Responsibilities include platform bring-up, debugging, performance optimization, and developing software for PCIe, DMA, NICs, and accelerators. The role requires strong C/C++ and Linux systems fundamentals, with experience in areas like kernel drivers, networking, or RDMA. | — | 0 |
| Executive Protection Operator The Executive Protection Operator role at OpenAI is responsible for safeguarding OpenAI's executives and key employees by providing security support during travel, events, and daily operations. This role requires proficiency in firearms handling, conducting threat assessments, advance work, and coordinating with various stakeholders to mitigate security risks. The operator must be able to respond to emergencies with discretion and maintain a flexible schedule to meet operational needs. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Sourcing Lead, Technology (Ads and Consumer Verticals) This role focuses on strategic sourcing and vendor management for OpenAI's advertising technology stack and consumer verticals, including health and finance. The lead will manage commercial execution, negotiate deals, ensure vendor support for product launches, and coordinate reviews for regulated data. The goal is to scale monetization efficiently while managing cost, risk, and operational fragility. | — | 0 |
| Strategic Investments & Consolidation Accounting Director Director of Strategic Investments & Consolidation Accounting at OpenAI, responsible for leading accounting, governance, reporting, and operational processes for strategic investments, consolidation matters, ownership structures, and complex transactions. This role requires deep U.S. GAAP expertise, experience with investment accounting, and the ability to build and scale accounting functions. | — | 0 |
| Audiovisual Design Engineer This role is for an Audiovisual Design Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the company's conference room audio-visual and video conferencing infrastructure globally. The role involves setting AV standards, managing hardware and software, ensuring reliability and scalability, and integrating AV systems with core IT services. Experience with enterprise AV systems, networking, and IT support is required. | — | 0 |
| Government Account Director, National Security This role is for a Government Account Director focused on National Security customers, responsible for driving sales of OpenAI's AI products within the Defense and Intelligence Communities. It requires deep understanding of the defense sales cycle, strong relationships with senior executives, and the ability to collaborate with technical teams to tailor solutions for customer needs. | — | 0 |
| Head of Insurance and Risk Management This role is for a Head of Insurance and Risk Management at OpenAI, responsible for establishing and leading the global insurance function. The position involves developing a risk financing strategy, protecting the company's balance sheet, and managing various insurance programs, including those related to emerging AI exposures. The role requires deep expertise in corporate insurance, enterprise risk management, and experience with complex commercial insurance structures and captive insurance companies. While the company is in AI, this specific role focuses on the financial and risk management aspects, not the direct development or deployment of AI models or systems. | — | 0 |
| Physical Security Systems Engineer This role is for a Physical Security Systems Engineer at OpenAI, responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining physical security systems such as access control, video surveillance, and GSOC workflows across global facilities. The role involves troubleshooting technical issues, managing operational tickets, coordinating with vendors, and partnering with IT and Facilities teams to ensure system reliability and scalability. It requires a hands-on approach to infrastructure engineering and operational support, with a focus on improving consistency and automation. | — | 0 |
| Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management to help shape and scale OpenAI’s risk and controls framework across several dynamic business domains. This role will focus on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating operational and financial risk across areas such as payments, equity, strategic investments, procurement, people processes, systems, third-party dependencies, and other finance-critical workflows. | — | 0 |
| Partner Manager, Cloud Service Provider Partnerships This role focuses on managing strategic partnerships with major cloud service providers to scale the availability and use of OpenAI's models. The Partner Manager will build and lead these partnerships, ensuring strong delivery with Research, Product, and Engineering, and coordinating with GTM and Marketing. The goal is to drive customer adoption, unlock new capabilities, and extend OpenAI's platform, ultimately turning agreements into reliable launches and sustained impact. The role requires a product-focused, high-judgment senior operator with experience in cloud provider operations and complex enterprise technology partnerships. | — | 0 |
| Producer, Global Events Producer for Global Events at OpenAI, responsible for managing and executing various types of events, including developer events, product launches, and enterprise events. This role involves full production lifecycle ownership, from concept shaping to vendor management and budget tracking, requiring strong operational and creative skills. The role also involves collaborating with product, marketing, and research teams to translate ideas into impactful experiences, and a curiosity about AI's influence on how people gather and learn. | — | 0 |